SAN JUAN – Nia Snow Clarke and Woman FIDE Mas­ter Han­nah Wil­son spear­head­ed a record-break­ing per­for­mance by Bar­ba­dos at the re­cent­ly con­clud­ed Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (CAC) Youth Chess Fes­ti­val in Puer­to Ri­co.

MEL­BOURNE, Aus­tralia – Eng­land has been dealt a sig­nif­i­cant blow in an al­ready dis­ap­point­ing Ash­es se­ries, with fast bowler Jofra Archer now set to miss the fi­nal two match­es due to a side strain.

The lo­cal bas­ket­ball fra­ter­ni­ty is in mourn­ing fol­low­ing the pass­ing of Earl Skeete, a dec­o­rat­ed for­mer play­er, coach and Team man­ag­er who ded­i­cat­ed over four decades to the de­vel­op­ment of the sport in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – The In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil (ICC) on Tues­day an­nounced a ma­jor mul­ti-year glob­al part­ner­ship with Hyundai Mo­tor Com­pa­ny, wel­com­ing the glob­al au­to­mo­tive man­u­fac­tur­er as a Pre­mier Part­ner for up­com­ing ICC events.

The cur­tain comes down on the 2025 rac­ing sea­son with two fea­ture races–the Gold Cup and the Ju­ve­nile Cham­pi­onship. While both races are a shad­ow of their for­mer selves, rac­ing fans can still look for­ward to a pleas­ant Fri­day out. It is hoped that many will come out to ex­pe­ri­ence the six races sched­uled to be run off.

With the grand­fa­ther law in full ef­fect, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) has in­ten­si­fied its over­seas re­cruit­ment dri­ve aimed at at­tract­ing el­i­gi­ble foot­ballers to their na­tion­al teams.

Ty Humphrey pro­duced a stand­out per­for­mance for Trinidad and To­ba­go as Team TTO de­liv­ered a strong show­ing at the Cen­tral Amer­i­ca and Caribbean (CAC) Youth Chess Fes­ti­val, held in Puer­to Ri­co from De­cem­ber 15-20.

ABU DHABI - In a ten­sion-soaked, low-scor­ing clas­sic at the Za­yed Crick­et Sta­di­um in the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates on Mon­day (De­cem­ber 22), the Shar­jah War­riorz snatched a dra­mat­ic four-wick­et vic­to­ry off the very last ball against the Abu Dhabi Knight Rid­ers, in­ject­ing high dra­ma in­to the DP World ILT20 play­off race.

MOUNT MAUN­GANUI, New Zealand — A som­bre Ros­ton Chase con­ced­ed his West In­dies side was “out­ma­noeu­vred and out­played” af­ter a com­pre­hen­sive de­feat in the third Test sealed a 2-0 se­ries loss to New Zealand.

MOUNT MAUN­GANUI - A dev­as­tat­ing spell of fast bowl­ing from Ja­cob Duffy, who claimed a ca­reer-best match haul of 9 for 128, pow­ered New Zealand to a crush­ing 323-run vic­to­ry over the West In­dies in the third Test in New Zealand on Mon­day, clinch­ing the se­ries 2-0.

“We have had hun­dreds of con­ver­sa­tions, and in every one of those ex­changes, Mr Pres­i­dent (Sud­hir Rames­sar) on­ly sought the bet­ter­ment of oth­ers. I have nev­er known him to ask for any­thing for him­self or to en­quire for any­thing on his own be­half,” Sen­a­tor Dr. Amery Browne.

MOUNT MAUN­GANUI, New Zealand – West In­dies will re­quire a mir­a­cle if they are to record a se­ries-lev­el­ing vic­to­ry over New Zealand in the third and fi­nal Test, fol­low­ing an­oth­er su­perb per­for­mance by the home side’s open­ers on Sat­ur­day’s penul­ti­mate day.